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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 29th March 2022 - Sunak defends his proposals
Description: "When he first became Chancellor, Rishi Sunak quickly became extremely popular as he oversaw several handouts to those most affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The furlough payments and the eat out to help out scheme saw him cap a meteoric rise to be the Prime Minister’s major rival in any future leadership contest.
However, canny observers predicted a time when Sunak would expect the population to pay for his generosity.
In the year from March 2020, barely a single derogatory word was written about his performance, but suddenly he has become the pantomime villain, holding the country’s purse strings ever...